Thousands of spanis took the streets in 40 cities across the country on Saturday to oppose the speculation of the housing.
“Housing should be a right, not an object to speculation,” said protest organizers.
“However, investment funds and landlords continue to deposit profits, while thousands of people are evicted, displaced from their neighborhood, or forced to live in inhuman conditions.”
Media reports stated that around 150,000 protesters were shown in Madrid, while protest organizers claimed that 100,000 people came out in Barcelona.
A collection of the rights and left-handed organizations of the organizers and the organizers accuses the housing of “a business model” on a collection-government.
Focusing on Spain’s housing crisis, “Let’s end the housing business,” opposed to “Let’s and the Housing Business”, seeking the organizers demanding rent cuts, outbreaks and more social housing.
“Veginant Rent,” they write, “is the main cause of a hurdle to reach the working class’s weakness and housing.” They accuse a small minority of the owners of the property of “a large part of the society”.
The history of Spain of real estate speculation and its lack of affordable housing in the last decade doubled during that time.
The foreign ownership of properties and tourism has made the problem supercharged. As a tourist explosion in Spain, locals in Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Mallorca and Valencia have been excluded from the market by visitors and real estate bookies.
For example, fare in Barcelona has increased by 60 percent in the last five years. The city has now decided to phase out all short -term apartment rental licenses by 2028.
More than 40 percent of Spaniards on rent alone
The Spain government estimates that it needs to be made at least 600,000 new apartments, calling it “a social emergency”. In 2024, 100,000 new houses were completed.
But organizers such as Gonzalo Alverez of Tenant’s syndicate (Syndicateo de Kissilinas e -insylino) said, “There is a lack of housing because houses are being abducted – on one hand tourist flats, and on the other hand, all the empty flats related to dirty money and banks are not more, it is not necessary. ,
Examples in which investors allow the apartments to fall into the apartment to evict the apartment, meaning that many tenants are forced to live in squalid conditions as the zamindars refuse to maintain assets with an eye to increase prices below the road.
Spain’s Central Bank recently reported that 40 percent of the tenants spend about 40 percent of their total income at housing. And despite a 20 percent increase in salary in the last 10 years, they have failed to keep pace with double fare. This has made a housing to the number one concern that occupies Spanish voters.
Opponents of the protest agitation saw hostile and escalatry, accusing the organizers of being a radical leftist, accusing the organizers of being a radical left and opposed the consultation of the personal property, while in the guise of supporting the housing equity.
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has imposed a rent cap as a way to deal with the problem as well as a way to deal with the problem.
At a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony for social housing units in Sevilla, Sanchez said, “We want us to work, they want the housing market to work according to the law due to social justice: They want to ensure that vulture funds and bookies they are not likeing them.”
On Saturday, tenants extended their calls to reduce the rent, improve 3.8 million vacant houses, ban evacutions on eviction companies, and establish eviction security for those who have no alternative housing.
